8 April 2024

Media: Rotorua Daily Post

Topic: Rubbish dumping on Wrigley Road

Enquiry

I'm just trying to track down the situation with rubbish being dumped on Wrigley Rd.

I understand Wrigley Rd residents have been told (but who I'm trying to determine) they can dump their rubbish at three spots and it will be picked up.

We have got photographs of the rubbish and just trying to work out what the situation is. Is it to front foot rubbish being dumped elsewhere? Is it a council initiative?

If you have any knowledge about it, can you let me know and we can go from there? Apologies, it might not have anything to do with the council but just starting with you.

Photos are attached for your reference

Response

We provided the following:

This was a Kāinga Ora initiative so you’ll need to contact them for details. RLC was not involved but see below comment that you are free to use if you wish.

From Craig Goodwin, Manager: Waste and Climate Change, Infrastructure & Environmental Solutions:

From Council’s perspective, it is disappointing this Kāinga Ora community collection initiative has been abused, leading to extra costs disposing of materials that were not intended to be collected and/or cannot go in the skip bins that were provided. This is classed as illegal dumping and we have sent our contractors, Smart Environmental, to clean up these dumpings today. We estimate the cost could be $3000 to $4000 but will know once the work is completed and Kāinga Ora has been in contact today and informed us it will cover this cost.